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Under the Wide and Starry sky

Horan, Nancy. Book on CD - 2014 BOCD Fiction 1 On Shelf No requests on this item Community Rating: 4 out of 5

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Compact discs.
Unabridged.
Read by Kirsten Potter.
"In her new novel, Nancy Horan has recreated a love story that is as unique, passionate, and overwhelmingly powerful as the one between Frank Lloyd Wright and Mamah Cheney depicted so memorably in Loving Frank. Under the Wide and Starry Sky chronicles the unconventional love affair of Scottish literary giant Robert Louis Stevenson, author of classics including Treasure Island and The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, and American divorcee Fanny Van de Grift Osbourne. They meet in rural France in 1875, when Fanny, having run away from her philandering husband back in California, takes refuge there with her children. Stevenson too is escaping from his life, running from family pressure to become a lawyer. And so begins a turbulent love affair that will last two decades and span the world.In her masterful new novel, Nancy Horan has recreated a love story that is as unique, passionate, and overwhelmingly powerful as the one between Frank Lloyd Wright and Mamah Cheney depicted so memorably in Loving Frank. Under the Wide and Starry Sky chronicles the unconventional love affair of Scottish literary giant Robert Louis Stevenson, author of classics including Treasure Island and The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, and American divorcee Fanny Van de Grift Osbourne. They meet in rural France in 1875, when Fanny, having run away from her philandering husband back in California, takes refuge there with her children. Stevenson too is escaping from his life, running from family pressure to become a lawyer. And so begins a turbulent love affair that will last two decades and span the world"-- Provided by publisher.

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PUBLISHED
Westminster, MD : Books on Tape, [2014]
Year Published: 2014
Description: 14 sound discs (17 hrs.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language: English
Format: Book on CD

ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9780449808122
0449808122

ADDITIONAL CREDITS
Potter, Kirsten.

SUBJECTS
Stevenson, Robert Louis, -- 1850-1894 -- Fiction.
Stevenson, Fanny Van de Grift, -- 1840-1914 -- Fiction.
Authors -- Fiction.
Biographical fiction.
Love stories.
Historical fiction.